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Nicolas Gervais

Branding | Naming | Brand Strategy

€600/day
26 projects
Paris, FR
8-15 years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Nicolas

A brand is born, it grows, it transforms.

For 9 years, I have been helping brands tell their stories, find their voice, and transform.

My job: Imagine a name for a startup and build the storytelling that goes with it, rethink the brand architecture of a group that has grown too fast, find the right tone for a consumer app, manage campaigns that leave a mark.

My playground: communication strategy, brand identity, naming, rebranding, content production, media strategy, organizational transformation. I don't limit myself to just one part of the chain. Everything is connected.

My background: CELSA, agencies, and large corporations. On the agency side, I learned creativity. On the client side, I understood business stakes and the sometimes surprising workings of large organizations.

Trilingual (FR-EN-DE), I can work in three languages on brands intended to live elsewhere.

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What interests me outside of work: sports performance, cycling, the history of automotive and aviation, linguistics and language learning, general culture in the broadest sense (I was a 2-time finalist on Questions pour un Champion).

I also have a YouTube channel about cycling.
  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Native or bilingual

  • German

    Fluent

Can work on-site
Paris (up to 50km), Paris (up to 30km)

Experience

  • Groupe M6
    Strategic Planner
    ENTERTAINMENT AND LEISURE
    October 2025 - November 2025 (1 month)
    Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
    With BeTrue Agency

    - Won competition following a tender
    - Expression charter for M6+, the M6 Group's streaming platform (managerial alignment, strategic and expression approach, UX writing development, do's and don'ts, cheatsheets, facilitation of appropriation workshops)


    Marketing de contenu Branding Conception rédaction Alignement stratégique
  • Groupe La Centrale
    Communication Manager
    E-COMMERCE
    January 2025 - July 2025 (6 months)
    Paris, France
    - Launch of the Impulsion event, La Centrale's event dedicated to major transformations in automotive distribution. In three months, with a €200k budget
    - Press relations: Quarterly used vehicle price observatory. One or more TV appearances each quarter
    - Corporate social media management: moved from an irregular posting schedule to 3 posts per week
    Evénementiel Automobile Branding Relations presse
  • AG2R LA MONDIALE
    Brand Project Manager
    BANKING AND INSURANCE
    November 2019 - Today (6 years and 8 months)
    Paris, France
    - Relaunch of AG2R LA MONDIALE with press, radio, and digital advertising, implementation of advertising processes (validation, naming of creatives, cross-functional management of the design studio)
    - Redesign of AG2R LA MONDIALE's brand architecture
    - Simplification of AG2R LA MONDIALE's brand platform
    - Development and deployment of AG2R LA MONDIALE's purpose and content production
    architecture de marque plateforme de marque Publicité Stratégie de marque Branding

Reviews

4.6

Out of 17 ratings

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Sylvie

Hutchinson Cycling

Reviewed on 8/28/2025

Nicolas is super professional, very attentive, high-quality deliverables, and all projects have always been completed perfectly on time. I highly recommend him!
CamilleC

Camille

Interactive Mobility

Reviewed on 2/19/2018

Thank you for these proposals!

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Education

  • Master in Marketing, Advertising & Communication - Innovation and Creation
    CELSA
    2017

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